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IC.782.027
18 Jul 1782:43 (14/725)
[1 column: Discussion of cruelties of the British army after
victories. . . The following particulars of the conduct of
the English officers, civil and military, after the Duke of
Monmouth's defeat, who had promoted an insurrection in the
west of England, are taken from Dalrymple's Memoires of the
Reign of James 2d, and are confirmed by the concurring
testimony of every author who has written on the subject--
they must prove the sanguinary temper of the British by no
means to be confined to the present period. . .
The Earl of Iversham, who commanded the royal army which
defeated Monmouth's, hung up 20 of his prisoners without any
trial, and Col. Kirk 19 ---Kirk, with a savage refinement,
made a sport of the numbers he had executed, having a
gallows erected at his door; he made a point of ordering the
execution of his prisoners to accompany the glasses which
were drank to the health of the King, Queen, or judge
Jeffries---when he saw those unhappy people trembling in
their last moments, he ordered the drums and trumpets to
sound, as he used to say, to give them music to their
dancing: He let loose his soldiers to live on free quarter
in the country, without distinction of innocent and guilty;
and in jest he call'd these savage instruments of his
cruelty his lambs. . .
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